Why

Why Take Wikipedia Offline?

Because how can knowledge equal freedom
if people need a modem to get it?
People don’t go to Wikipedia because they want to be on the Internet; they go there because they want to find answers and discover new questions. Of course, the best answers are never ends in themselves. They raise our curiosity and lead us down new avenues. They don’t stop conversations but, rather, sustain them.

Similarly, each WikiReader experience is the beginning of something new. With more than three million interconnected articles in a completely offline, handheld package, the WikiReader is discovery, investigation, entertainment, and inspiration all rolled into one.

In keeping with Wikipedia’s stated goal of:

“Providing a free encyclopedia to everyone on the planet.”

It has a touch screen that accommodates international keyboards, and uses widely available AAA batteries. And since the WikiReader never requires an Internet connection, it can deliver all of this to anyone, anywhere, at any time.

Turning a WikiReader on is easy. Turning it off is a different story.

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About

WikiReader was a project to deliver an offline, text-only version of Wikipedia on a mobile device.

The project is sponsored by Openmoko and its source code has been released